[Noisebridge-discuss] Hacker Dojo / NB reciprocal membership WAS: Hacker Dojo up and running, and in the mainstream news

[Naomi Most]

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Jonathan Lassoff <jof at thejof.com> wrote:

> Excerpts from Naomi Most's message of Sat Sep 12 05:35:41 -0700 2009:
> > Yes.
> >
> > Relatedly, I've been thinking about revisiting my years spent developing
> > around Asterisk and instating a hackerspace-spanning telco over VOIP.
>
> Sounds like a worthy idea, though getting everyone to interoperate might
> be tricky. It seems that almost everyone has a different opinion as to
> how this stuff should function.
>


True.  It requires all interested parties to sign on to an architecture (and
therefore a leading architect, at least for the first incarnation).

There are several different Right Ways to organize such a thing, all with
their own arbitrary pros and cons; the only important thing is to reach
consensus on a Way and then stick to it ... until such time as the
architecture becomes obviously the Wrong Thing and we need to refactor.
 Conceivably, the Right Architect would be forward-thinking enough to stave
off the refactoring for a good long time.




> I think having some public SIP addresses other spaces can call into and
> maintaining a hacerspace-local list of addresses would make it
> possible for other people to connect as they please.
>

Yep!  What's useful about phones is immediacy and interrupt, which is great
for situations in which you're off-site and you need a special weird part,
which means (generally) that you need someone on-site to confirm that it is,
indeed, the special weird part you need.

There are also possibilities like giving all members their own name-routed
extension (meaning that no longer do you have to fish around for someone's
cell number as long as you know their name); expertise-based routing;
time-of-day routing; special voicemail buckets for certain topics... These
things make me happy.



> There's even already an asterisk setup going on at the 83c space. The
> red payphone and Cisco VoIP desk phone hook into it with SIP.
>
>
Ah, cool.  I'm still learning what's already been done at Noisebridge.  I'd
love to inspect that setup and route some extensions through my toy asterisk
server as a starting point for further interaction.

--Naomi



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